Researching Your idea

Before you get started writing a young adult book, make sure you've done your research. Author Jo Whittemore provides some helpful writing tips for YA authors. First...

Any good story—whether it’s a thriller or a romance or a historical novel—is about communication. It’s about communicating myself as an author to an audience, a reader...

The Internet is a starting point for biography research, according to author Debra Ann Pawlak, because it's not always accurate or reliable. She advocates old newspapers...

The Internet is a starting point for biography research, according to author Debra Ann Pawlak, because it's not always accurate or reliable. She advocates old newspapers...

When writing a thriller or mystery, devious plots are brewing. Characters up to no good carry out an assortment of crimes and swindles, including murder. The murder...